Henry Dee and Charles Moore

Henry Dee and Charles Moore were both 19 when Klansmen abducted them on May 2, 1964, as they tried to get a ride home. They were taken into the Homochitto National Forest, beaten and drowned in the Mississippi River. When their remains turned up in an old river channel, FBI agents first thought they had found James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. In 2005 federal authorities reopened the case after Charles's brother Thomas Moore and filmmaker David Ridgen pressed it, and in 2007 a jury convicted James Ford Seale, who died in prison.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Homochitto National Forest — 5.8 mi
  A 191,839-acre national forest in seven southwest Mississippi counties, replanted by the Civilian Conservation Corps, with Clear Springs and the 1,075-acre Okhissa Lake.
• Mount Locust — 23 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.
• Emerald Mound — 23 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.

More markers nearby

• The Birthplace of C Spire — 0.4 mi
• Union Church — 16 mi
• Crosby — 16 mi
• Salem Church, Cole's Creek — 19 mi